The Cataclysmic Origin Story of Leafcutter Ants
We tend to think of agriculture in human terms. But when our ancestors began rudimentary farming about 12,000 years ago, leafcutter ants were millions of years ahead of us. Surprisingly, their story began some 66 million years ago, when an asteroid believed to be about 10 kilometers wide slammed into the Yucatán Peninsula. The Chicxulub […]
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